Excellent Network Analysing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting application
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it mainly for interrogation, analysis, and monitoring of network packets. Additionally where there are issues we use it for troubleshooting and remediating these issues. It's easy to use with a practical and straightforward GUI, which is simple to get accustomed to. Additionally with it being open source costs are almost minimal and it still performs as efficiently, reliably, and admirably as paid-for commercial off-the-shelf software competitors.
Pros
- Analysing Network Traffic
- Troubleshooring Network Packets
- Easy to deploy and make modifications to configuration
- Cheap and cost effective to run, administer and manage
Cons
- Sometimes difficult to read analysis
- Lag and Latency may occur occasionally due to over dependency on resources
- Although GUI is easy to use, it needs to be updated to match competitors
- Filters are not easiest to use
Likelihood to Recommend
Wireshark being an open source tool means that we have a cost-efficient, reliable, trustworthy, and efficient network sniffing and analysing tool, which monitors all our network traffic reliably and in real-time. Troubleshooting and remediation of network packets is done easily and systematically. The filtering of packets is simple and allows for a better, more in-depth analysis. Real-time capture of events and excellent report-deriving capabilities are two further facets of the software.
